OWASP/Top10

Features

• Security Risk Assessments - Provides a standardized framework for identifying and prioritizing critical security risks based on impact and likelihood.
• Security Best Practices - Serves as a comprehensive set of guidelines and patterns for building secure software and mitigating common risks.
• Web Application Security - Provides a comprehensive framework for identifying and mitigating the most critical security risks in web applications.
• Supply Chain Security - Defines practices for auditing repository modifications and build settings to maintain software supply chain integrity.
• Secure Coding Guides - Offers technical recommendations and architectural patterns for developers to implement defense in depth.
• API Access Security - Implements access controls, rate limiting, and input validation specifically to protect API endpoints from abuse.
• API Security Hardening - Provides standards for restricting API methods using access controls and rate limits to block automated attacks.
• Application Security Standards - Establishes a comprehensive list of critical web security risks and technical guidance for their mitigation.
• Security Requirement Frameworks - Defines structured frameworks for collecting technical protection requirements for confidentiality and integrity.
• Identity and Access Management - Defines secure authentication and authorization workflows including session management and multi-factor authentication.
• Identity Authentication - Provides guidance on implementing multi-factor authentication and breached-password checks to secure user identities.
• Injection Prevention - Provides technical patterns for blocking malicious commands using parameterized interfaces and context-aware escaping.
• Input Validation Strategies - Defines parameterized interfaces and escaping mechanisms to block malicious data from executing as system commands.
• Policy-Based Access Control - Implements server-side permission checks and authorization policies to prevent unauthorized data disclosure.
• Security and Access Control - Establishes a standardized framework for implementing trusted application and API security controls.
• Software Supply Chain Security - Provides guidance on monitoring software supply chain vulnerabilities through bulletins and dependency databases.
• Threat Modeling - Provides a structured methodology for evaluating attack vectors and data flows to identify architectural vulnerabilities.
• Security Testing - Establishes assessment frameworks and test cases for verifying the security posture of applications through continuous testing.
• Injection Vulnerabilities - Provides a comprehensive guide for identifying and mitigating SQL, NoSQL, and command injection vulnerabilities.
• Vulnerability Frameworks - Offers a comprehensive, categorized framework of security threats and defensive patterns to identify and remediate common software flaws.
• Vulnerability Prioritization - Provides a standardized methodology for ranking security flaws based on impact and frequency to prioritize mitigation.
• Secure Design Principles - Provides architectural patterns and countermeasures to integrate security directly into the design phase.
• Secure Development Lifecycles - Provides a methodology for embedding threat modeling and penetration testing into every stage of the software development lifecycle.
• Software Bill of Materials Generators - Provides a framework for using Software Bills of Materials to inventory and identify vulnerable libraries.
• Incident Response And Playbooks - Provides methodologies and playbooks for managing and coordinating responses to security incidents and breaches.
• Layered Defense Strategies - Defines architectural patterns for multi-stage validation and system isolation to limit the impact of security failures.
• Security Operations and Management - Offers guidance on security operations, including patch management and regular configuration hardening.
• Permissions Management - Offers guidance on restricting access to cloud storage and services to prevent sensitive data exposure.
• Memory Safety Protections - Recommends the use of memory-safe languages and bounds checking to prevent buffer overflows and unauthorized access.
• Deployment Access Controls - Provides guidelines for applying segregation and access controls to the deployment process to prevent unauthorized modifications.
• Pipeline Security - Provides a framework for hardening infrastructure and enforcing separation of duties within the build pipeline.
• Artifact Integrity Validation - Recommends using digital signing and provenance tracking to ensure the authenticity of software packages.
• Security Education - Recommends establishing security champion programs and training materials to improve developer security culture.
• Account Recovery - Recommends using consistent response messages during account recovery to mitigate user enumeration attacks.
• Security Headers - Provides technical guidance on configuring HTTP security headers to enforce secure browser behavior.
• Application Data Security - Sets standards for encrypting network traffic using strong protocols and forward secrecy to prevent interception.
• Audit Logging - Specifies the recording of auditable events and validation errors to enable forensic analysis.
• Short-Lived Credential Authentications - Recommends replacing static secrets with short-lived credentials issued by trusted identity providers.
• Configuration Hardening - Offers technical guidance on locking down environments by removing unnecessary features and applying secure defaults.
• Cryptographic Random Number Generators - Directs developers to use cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generators for keys and nonces.
• Denial of Service Prevention - Provides strategies for rate limiting and resource quotas to prevent system exhaustion and denial of service.
• Dependency Vulnerability Scanners - Provides guidance on using software bills of materials to detect known vulnerabilities in third-party dependencies.
• Developer Security - Recommends the integration of static analysis and secret scanning tools into the developer workflow.
• Error Handling Security - Provides guidance on filtering system error messages to prevent the leakage of sensitive technical details.
• Audit and Compliance - Defines processes to measure application security performance against industry standards to prioritize mitigation.
• Insecure Direct Object Reference Prevention - Provides methods to verify user ownership of records to prevent insecure direct object references.
• Issuer and Audience Validators - Guidance on verifying token audience and issuer claims to ensure credentials serve their intended purpose.
• Network Zone Segregation - Recommends isolating network layers and tenant data to limit the blast radius of potential security compromises.
• Transit and At-Rest Encryption - Details technical requirements for encrypting stored information and managing keys to protect data at rest.
• Release Signature Verifiers - Guidance on using digital signatures to verify that software releases and serialized data originate from trusted sources.
• Security Baselines - Defines minimum essential security configurations and controls to ensure consistency across development teams.
• Security Performance Metrics - Offers a methodology for tracking vulnerability density and practice adherence to guide security improvements.
• Secure Storage Patterns - Specifies the use of salted functions with a work factor to protect passwords against cracking attacks.
• Secrets and Credential Management - Provides strategies for the secure storage, retrieval, and rotation of sensitive credentials and tokens.
• Web Server Hardening - Defines configuration rules to disable directory listing and remove metadata from web servers.
• Data Sensitivity Classifications - Provides a methodology for labeling sensitive data based on privacy laws to apply correct security policies.
• Session Management Standards - Defines requirements for random session identifiers and timeout enforcement to prevent unauthorized account access.
• Session Token Issuance - Defines standards for managing the issuance and lifecycle of access and refresh tokens.
• User Access Monitoring - Includes guidance on logging unsuccessful access attempts and auditing user interactions to detect potential breaches.
• Security Control Mappings - Links abstract security objectives to concrete technical controls for consistent implementation across environments.
• Exception Handling Pipelines - Implements centralized pipelines to intercept and sanitize exception data, preventing sensitive technical leaks.
• Global Exception Handlers - Recommends using global exception handlers to manage unpredictable software states and prevent security vulnerabilities.
• Resilience Patterns - Recommends architectural resilience patterns and resource limits to prevent system crashes during adverse events.
• Security Alert Monitors - Provides guidance on establishing security alert monitors to detect suspicious behavior and honeytoken access.
• Log Stream Protections - Provides strategies for securing log data against tampering through encoding and append-only storage controls.
• Threat-Based Design Validations - Guides the use of plausibility checks and misuse-case testing to verify that critical application flows resist threats.

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